[aroch]

The point of vaccinating kids is:

1. They still get sick, even if asymptomatic, and can bring it home to the house where older people live 2. I don't know if there are published case report / data yet, but anecdotally the new strains are much more likely to cause complications and require hospitalizations for younger children. 3. Even asymptomatic infectious seem to cause "long covid" (Something like a third of long covid cases were asymptomatic). Potentially life-long alterations to lung or heart function doesn't sound like fun

[dham]

But aren't older people vaccinated?

[aroch]

Not necessarily, you could have an immuno-compromised parent/grandparent

[dham]

But according to CDC, both people have to be vaccinated to talk to each other inside. This means that if one person is vaccinated you can't see you're immuno-compromised grandparent anyway.

[aroch]

Yes, but if your child is school age -- schools which are now increasingly going to in person instruction -- and you are immunocompromised, what are you going to do? Same question if you live in a multi-generational household, but now there are grandkids going to school and kids going to work.

I see elsewhere you're claiming that long Covid isn't a thing. It is, full stop. Unless you're suggesting that living with lung and heart damage caused by Covid isn't a complication of Covid?

[dham]

Lung and heart damage can be the result of any virus. Just look at any article pre 2020.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090717150302.h...

https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1463

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329090639.h...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/heartdisease.htm#:~:text=St....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8142/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0945053X1...

[kspacewalk2]

Long COVID is post viral fatigue syndrome. Really sucks when you have it, nothing singularly new about it as far as any available evidence shows. A bunch of people are experiencing it all at the same time, hence the prominence in the media. "Long flu" is much more diffuse in time, so not media-worthy. Mine was 3 months of hell at 18 years old.